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  • Introducing: The Legend of SwordQuest
    2024/09/05

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    2 分
  • 1: The Sword and the Stoned
    2024/09/13

    In the early 1980s, Atari is one of the biggest entertainment brands in the world and seeks to promote the biggest video game contest to date, promising $150,000 in prizes. But what starts out as a promising adventure quickly devolves into chaos.

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    39 分
  • 2: Gentlemen, Start Your Joysticks
    2024/09/19

    Expert gamers are invited to an all-expenses paid trip to California for the first round of Atari’s SwordQuest contest and a chance at the first treasure: a $25,000 medallion. The problem? Solving the game’s central puzzle will prove nearly impossible.

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    37 分
  • 3: The Chalice
    2024/09/26

    SwordQuest players discover that being video game rock stars comes at a price. Meanwhile, delays in the contest raise suspicions among contestants that Atari may not intend to see it through to the end—and that the prizes may not even exist at all.

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    36 分
  • 4: Descent Into Darkness
    2024/10/03

    Atari’s financial problems force the company to issue an ultimatum to SwordQuest players—one that may involve a top-secret gaming tournament closed to the public.

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    40 分
  • 5: Stay Gold
    2024/10/10

    Years after SwordQuest came to an abrupt and disappointing end, a gamer makes a surprising discovery in a Brooklyn thrift shop.

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    41 分
  • 6: Plunder
    2024/10/17

    An unreleased SwordQuest game suddenly surfaces online; the fate of the missing prizes undergoes fresh scrutiny by gaming historians.

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    37 分
  • 7: The Swordsman
    2024/10/24

    The trail to find the missing SwordQuest treasures leads back to one of the most controversial figures in Atari history.

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    36 分